Viewing Event Record: A prospective order from the Privy Council is to prohibit all manner of public entertainment in London, Middlesex and Surrey

Abstract

A 'List of Orders to be published by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London and the Justices of the Peace of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey by direction from the Lords of the Privy Council' is to forbid 'playes Bearebaytinges games singing of balletts buckler play or such like causes of assemblies,' under pain of severe punishment.

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: circa May 1609 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: circa May 1609 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Date notes

Notes
Journal entry is made between items dated 4 May 1609 and 3 June 1609.

Venues

Name
Bear Garden
Name
Blackfriars (II)
Name
Boar's Head Inn
Name
Curtain
Name
Fortune (I)
Name
Globe (I)
Name
Red Bull
Name
Swan
Name
Whitefriars

Event Type

  • beargarden context
  • performance restraint
  • playhouse context